Companies testing autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh will have to immediately report crashes resulting in any injuries. Mayor Bill Peduto signed an executive order Monday that included the guidelines meant to help build public confidence in the testing after a deadly accident in Arizona last year. Representatives of the five companies testing autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh express support for Peduto’s measure.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Monday announced $70,000 in donations from his foundation to help K-9 programs at two Beaver County police departments. The grants will be used to create new K-9 units, replace retired dogs, buy vehicles and safety equipment, and train and certify K-9 officers. Departments receiving the grants are the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office and the Center Township Police Department. This is the 12th grant cycle for the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation. The organization says grants were also distributed to K-9 units in cities where the Steelers played their road games in 2018.
A Fayette County woman is behind bars, accused of trying to have her husband killed. State police charged Roxanne Guty yesterday with conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation. Troopers say Guty offered a family friend 25-thousand-dollars to kill her estranged husband, but the man instead went to police.
A man in Union Township, Lawrence County is accused of firing a gun outside a gas station over the weekend because he didn’t approve of someone else’s choice of music. Police said Monday Timothy Adams fired the weapon outside the Sheetz on State Street after an argument that began with the victims watching a video of a rap song. Adams is facing attempted homicide charges.
Beaver Borough Council will not be buying a church for its municipal complex after all. The borough manager tells the Beaver County Times the 449-thousand-dollar deal fell through over timeline issues regarding due diligence. Beaver officials have been looking for a property that would be handicap-accessible to become its one-story municipal complex.
Hillary Clinton says she won’t run for president in 2020, but vows she’s “not going anywhere.” The former secretary of state, senator and first lady ruled out another campaign during an interview posted Monday by New York TV station News12 .Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, says, “I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe.” She says, “What’s at stake in our country, the kind of things that are happening right now are deeply troubling to me.” She says she has spoken with several of the candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, and has told them, “Don’t take anything for granted, even though we have a long list of real problems and broken promises” from the Trump administration.
A POLITICAL PETITION SIGNING IN ALIQUIPPA WAS CLOSED DOWN LAST NIGHT…AFTER A BIG FIGHT BROKE OUT AMONG THOSE ATTENDING THE EVENT. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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Autonomous car testing plan aims to boost public confidence
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Companies testing autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh will have to immediately report crashes resulting in any injuries and have three days to reveal those that result in any damage.
The guidelines are part of an executive order signed Monday by Mayor Bill Peduto and are meant to help build public confidence in the testing after a deadly accident in Arizona last year.
Representatives of the five companies testing autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh — Aptiv, Argo AI, Aurora Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University and Uber — expressed their support for Peduto’s measure.
Karina Ricks, director of the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, says the companies have 30 days to submit initial information, such as neighborhoods where they expect to conduct testing and times the tests will happen.
New companies must submit information 10 days before starting on-road testing.
Cocaine, meth on rise in Pennsylvania’s early warning areas
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania appears to be reflecting national trends in drug abuse, as methamphetamine and cocaine rises while prescription drug and heroin deaths level off in some areas.
Jennifer Smith, secretary for Pennsylvania’s Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, told a state Senate committee Monday that the state is seeing higher cocaine and methamphetamine use in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the Johnstown area.
She says those areas are usually the first three to show new trends across Pennsylvania. Smith says the notion of the opioid crisis, meanwhile, is starting to wane in some parts of the state.
Federal officials are seeing similar trends.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is concerned that methamphetamine and cocaine use are being seen at much higher levels in areas that haven’t historically been hotspots for those drugs.